As soon as Black Lion lands, the big beast lowers down and opens its jaws to lower it's ramp and Keith walks down. Once Keith set his foot down, Black Lion stood back up and its shield activated as Keith walked off towards an elevator.
Once on the elevator it takes him down, it makes a humming sound as flashes of light, illuminating in the darkness briefly. Once the elevator stopped it let our a low hiss as the to reveal a catwalk.
As Keith continued to walk, it got darker with pods lined up on each side of the catwalk. Celestia laid at the end of the catwalk on the floor still, in her favorite dress.
"Celestia!" Keith races towards her, sliding to a stop he sank to the floor and pulled her into his arms. "Come on Cel." Cradling her, he gently cupped her face and turned her head to face him. "Baby, please. Open your beautiful eyes for me." He begs.
Nothing.
Keith holds her tightly as he gently rocks her back and forth. "I'm so sorry." He whispers, before he leans in and kisses her forehead then her cheek. Suddenly all the dark pods slit up, catching Keith's attention and his eyes grow.
Shiro stood in the pods.
Keith slowly and carefully laid Celestia back to the floor and stood up to stare at all the Shiro clones. The Red Paladin figured that Hagger made clones of Shiro just hours after he became Champion.
"Hello Keith."
Keith spun around to find Shiro, standing in his Paladin uniform without his helmet. And an unreadable look on his face, but it did hold darkness in once calm eyes.
"Shiro, it's gonna be ok." Keith told him.
"Yes, I know." Shiro answered as he walked forwards, a menacing look now on his face.
"We just have to get back to the castle." Keith continued.
"We are not going anywhere!" Shiro yelled, his cyborg arm glowed purple as he rushed at Keith.
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A soft golden glow appeared around Celestia, and it slowly engulfed her in a blinding white light. After a long while, the light died and Celestia's eyes flew open as she bolts up and breaths heavily, struggling to breath.
Hearing a battle not that far off, she turns to see Keith and Shiro in a heated battle and Keith looked like he was getting overwhelmed.
Slowly and carefully, Celestia stood up, but she fell to her knees as she placed her left hand on her forehead while her right hand rested on the floor. "How am I alive?" She breathed in a whisper as she looked down at herself, suddenly a wand with a crystal on the tip appeared in front of her.
Celestia blinked as she stared at it. "A wand?" She reached for it, and took it to look at it more closely. She felt more stronger with the wand as she felt it pulse.
Suddenly the station started to explode and it began to collapse on itself as the upper parts of the station began to fall on the lower parts of the remaining station.
A loud scream is heard from the distence.
Celestia spins around to see that Shiro has Keith pinned to the floor of the station, a spark of a glow surrounds Keith and something powerful has Shiro flying backwards away from the Red Paladin.
"KEITH!" Celestia screams as she runs towards them. Both boys turn in her direction, Shiro charges at her.
"CELESTIA!" Keith jumps to his feet, but staggers a little.
Shiro runs at Celestia with his Galra arm glowing, and ready for the strike. Celestia jumps over him, as she twists herself around in the air her bayard is heard zinging as it appears in her hand she and lands behind him.
As Keith stumbles to sit on his knees, he tries to watch as Celestia and Shiro fight while the station continues to collapse on itself. Both using the falling station to their advantage. Then at one point Shiro gets the upperhand on Celestia, and had her pinned to a collum, her Paladin shield is the only thing protecting her as Shiro pushes strength into the Galra arm.
Keith starts to growl with a mark appearing on the side of his face, a dangerous look in his eyes and his teeth grew sharp. And with sword in hand, Keith charges forward.
With a loud cry, Keith slams into Shiro, Shiro's thrown to the side and to the ground. Celestia breaths heavily as she falls to her knees and leans on her collum behind her. Shiro turns to find Keith standing protectivly in front of Celestia.
Shiro charges at Keith again.
Celestia can feel herself get weak again. She opens her eyes to witness Keith letting out a scream and slicing Shiro's Galra arm.
Shiro falls unconscious to the floor.
"KEITH!" Celestia stumbled to her feet, she staggered and stumbled as she ran towards Keith.
Keith just stood there, staring at her until she fell into his arms.
"Oh Keith." She cried. "I, I - we thought you were." She trailed off in a choke of sobs as they hold each other tightly. "Kolivon said that you disappeared, you didn't check in with him like you were suppose to do. He sent a team to look for you, and they found horror."
"What matters is that I'm alive." Keith told her gently. "Baby, I'm so sorry for everything."
She pulls away to look up at him, and he gently wipes her tears. "How, how are you older?" She wonders as her tears have slowed.
"I promise to tell you the whole story later." He promises. "But have you heard of the Quantum Abyss?"
She blinks a little confused. "Yes." She nods. "I have."
He leans down to kiss her gently. "I've missed you."
She smiles. "Not as much as I missed you." She then hugs him tightly, resting the side of her head on his chest and enjoying his arms around her.
Shiro's form on the floor, suddenly came into her view. She pulls away from Keith and runs towards the Black Paladin.
"Shiro!" Celestia makes it to his side, just as she makes it to his side, the structure around them explodes and the floor under two collapse.
Keith flies back from the explosion and hits the floor hard. Jumping to his feet Keith races to the area. "Celestia! Shiro!"
With one hand Celestia is holding a rebarb that's sticking out, and her other hand is holding Shiro's human wrist. Another explosion hits, causing more explosion and more explosion and the rebarb breaks.
Celestia, still having a grip on Shiro plummet, to the unknown. She closes her eyes to accept her fate.
